The so-called Superset tech stack, on which carmaker Volvo is constructing its software-defined vehicles, is behind the corporate’s subsequent launch.

The ES90 electrical car, which is being unveiled on 5 March, would be the first Volvo automobile outfitted with twin Nvidia Drive AGX Orin {hardware}, which the corporate mentioned will increase the bar on security and general efficiency via information, software program and synthetic intelligence (AI).

As Laptop Weekly has beforehand reported, the Superset tech stack consists of 1 single set of {hardware} and software program modules, and programs that underpin all upcoming electrical vehicles from Volvo.

It represents what Volvo describes as “a radical transformation” in the way it can develop and use software program to enhance ranges of security, expertise and general efficiency all through the automobile’s lifecycle. “With the Superset tech stack, we will make such enhancements extra effectively and roll them out even sooner by way of over-the-air updates and throughout all fashions based mostly on the Superset,” Volvo mentioned.

The Nvidia Drive AGX Orin {hardware} gives 508 trillion operations per second for AI-based lively security options, automobile sensors and environment friendly battery administration.

Volvo mentioned the {hardware} will allow its engineers to extend the dimensions of the deep studying mannequin and neural community it makes use of from 40 million to 200 million parameters. “This can occur over time as we acquire extra information and proceed to develop the mannequin, with the general aim of bettering buyer expertise and – most significantly – security ranges,” Volvo mentioned.

The Nvidia {hardware} helps the ES90 to know its environment via a sophisticated array of sensors, which incorporates one lidar, 5 radars, eight cameras and 12 ultrasonic sensors, in addition to a sophisticated driver understanding system contained in the automobile. In line with Volvo, these security programs are designed to assist preserve you protected by detecting obstacles, even in darkness, and activating proactive security measures equivalent to collision avoidance. 

Commenting on the {hardware} and software program improvements contained in the ES90, Volvo chief engineering and expertise officer Anders Bell mentioned: “We innovate in all areas of expertise to grow to be a pacesetter in software-defined vehicles, and we’re channelling all our engineering efforts into one course: making nice vehicles that get even higher over time.

“By combining the facility of core computing and our Superset tech stack, we will now make safer vehicles extra effectively than ever earlier than.”

The ES90 would be the second Volvo constructed based mostly on the Superset tech stack, and follows on from the EX90, the place the stack was first launched. 

The Superset tech stack will underpin all upcoming Volvo electrical vehicles, which, in response to Volvo, means it is going to be in a position to enhance the efficiency of every automobile in its lineup concurrently. For example, ES90 clients can profit from EX90 software program upgrades and vice versa.

Volvo positions the Superset stack as an enabler to interchange worth creation via {hardware} with a software program strategy to constructing worth into its clients’ vehicles.

The Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration can even be put in on new EX90 vehicles, changing the prevailing Drive AGX Orin and Drive AGX Xavier {hardware}. Volvo mentioned current clients of the EX90 will get an improve of their vehicles freed from cost.